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The Health Lottery could be made to increase the amount that it gives to
charities under proposals being considered to protect the sums raised for
good causes by the National Lottery.

Such a move would infuriate Richard Desmond, the owner of the Express
and Star newspapers, who started the Health Lottery last October. Mr
Desmond gives health charities only 0.34p above the legal minimum for
“society lotteries” of 20p per £1 ticket.

The National Lottery gives 28p plus another 12p in lottery duty, which society
lotteries do not pay.

Camelot, the operator of the National Lottery, claims that Mr Desmond’s